"The most common use case for owned boxes is creating recursive data structures like a binary search tree."
I don't think this is the most common use of owned boxes: string management, ... I don't think it a good idea to place "binary search tree" in a tutorial. You don't do this every day :) ----- Gaetan 2013/11/19 Gaetan <gae...@xeberon.net> > In the french presentation for rust 0.8 [1], the author gives the analogy > with C++ semantics > - ~ is a bit like unique_ptr > - @ is an enhanced shared_ptr<T> > - borrowed pointer works like C++ reference > > and I think it was very helpful to better understand them. I don't know if > it is true or now, but this comparison helps a lot understanding the > concepts.You can present them like this, and after, add more precision, and > difference with the C++ counter parts. > > A tutorial to make would be "Rust for C++ programmer" :) > > > [1] http://linuxfr.org/news/presentation-de-rust-0-8 > > ----- > Gaetan > > > > 2013/11/19 Daniel Micay <danielmi...@gmail.com> > >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Gaetan <gae...@xeberon.net> wrote: >> > I don't think there is any particular issue with the tutorial, but we >> need >> > more "recipes" on how to handle typical situations. >> >> I'm specifically talking about the `Boxes` section in the tutorial and >> not the whole picture. I keep hearing that the coverage of `~` it's >> confusing - so can someone elaborate? >> >> Rewriting the coverage of boxes and references by walking through the >> implementation of some data structures is something I'm willing to do, >> but in my opinion that section is now quite good, other than being dry >> and not presenting interesting code samples for the use cases it >> describes. >> > >
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